Tiberius TV Series

Today in class we watched a a tv series that is on Tiberius Graccherius. It is on the BBC. It starts off by showing how his father died. His father was a very honorable man who the people loved. Then it goes into his later life where it shows some of the battles he fought and won. Tiberius had a good shot to become a powerful leader but when he took the side of the poor, the Aristrocats fired back.

Test Day

today we took a quest also known as a tiz. I think I did pretty good on it.

Today in class we watched the chariot scene from the movie Ben Hurr. It was a scene from a movie that was filmed in the 1950's. This made it very exciting because the race actually happened. The actors were not in front of a green screen or anything. We also finished talking about the rap and taking notes on it. Hannibal brought Rome to the foot of defeat. It was a great idea that he had. Rome was fighting as the home team in the first Punic War. Carthage attacked Rome. The Phoenicians had mercenaries as their soldiers. Rome won the first Punic War.

Rome Rap Notes Part 2

Today in class, my group shared our YouTube video thingy and so did Alex's group, Holly's, and Maxwell's. Then, we took notes on the rap that Mr. Schick wrote. Here are some more notes. Hannibal was a Carthagian general, who assembled troops in the Second Punic War and attacked Rome from the North. Rome won the Second Punic War and they were now 2-0. At the Third Punic War, Rome attacked Carthage and completely destroyed it. 1/3 of the population of Rome are slaves. A latifundia is a huge estate also known as a farm. After people couldn't cope and lost their land, they decided to move to Rome. The Gracchus Brothers tried to reform the government. They had an idea to talk to the rich and try and get them to give back to the soldiers who fought in the war and lost a lot of things. They said no and when things started to get some traction, they killed one of the brothers. This almost started a civil war.

Rome Rap Notes

Today in class we went over some notes after Holly presented her video. Here are some of the notes. They drained out a swamp to form the city of Rome. They did the same thing while building the city of Washington D.C. Tarquin's son raped a woman, who had a good reputation, got away with it and Lucretia shortly after committed suicide. Tarquin was then ran out of town and was Rome's last monarch. There were three governments that formed into one. Combinations of Democracy, Aristocracy, and plus monarchy. This was not a tyrant rather a Republic. Aristocracy was the like the Senate, with rich and powerful patricians. Monarchy where they have two consuls that could veto each other and could only serve for one year every 10 years. They worked with the Senate and had most of the power. They took all their laws and carved them onto a stone and posted them in town. This was called the twelve tables. The century was a group of eighty soldiers that were mobile. The cavalry was soldiers who fought on horseback. Three Punic wars were all fought between Carthage and Rome. They both claimed Sicily and Rome started a war and won.

Today in class we continued to work on our YouTube videos that we are creating on the rap song that Mr. Schick performed for us. Our group of me, Kelley and Grace are almost done our video. We had a substitute. Our sub was Sister Marge. She was pretty chill and she let me leave class early and get a head start in beating the traffic in the hallway with my leg. She also rode the elevator up to the third floor with and it was fun.

Today in class we could not get internet at the beginning of class. This made things complicated because we had to do an activity involving the internet. We had to wait unto we got internet before we began our assignment. We broke up into our groups are while we were waiting we talked about our plan for the assignment. In my group is Grace and Kelley. We finally got internet were able to start our project.

Additional Notes on Chapter 6

Today in West Civ Mr. Schick and Martha rapped for us. The rap was on Julius Caesar. After that we went over the notes from chapter six. We learned about consuls who were two Roman senators that made crucial decisions on military or government problems. They had two people so that one person didn't gain too much power and they could veto each other. They also limited there time to one year to control the power. If there was an emergency, they had a dictator but he was only in complete charge for one year. Plebeians didn't really have a voice in the law. The Twelve Tables were a set of laws that were written down and posted that have all the laws of the Land. They plebeians eventually got their own assembly where they had a voice.

Track Meet

Today  I wasn't in class because I had to leave early for a track meet.

Notes on Chapter 6

patricians- Upper-class citizens who belonged to the oldest and noblest Roman families

Republic- the system of city-state government in which decision-making power was shared between the Senate and assemblies of male citizens

plebeians- the Roman common people including workers, small farmers, and wealthy people who were not patricians

Senate- in ancient Rome, a government assembly appointed by the king, and under the Republic by the consuls; originally all members were patricians, but in time wealthy plebeians appointed as well

consuls- in the Roman Republic, two senators who led the government and military for one-year terms and appointed their own successors

dictator- in the Roman Republic, a single leader with full decision-making powers appointed for a maximum six-month term during times of emergency

tribunes- magistrates elected by the plebeians who eventually gained the power to initiate and veto laws

client- a person who provides person services in return for money and protection from a patron

patron- a wealthy person who supports others with money and protection in exchange for personal services

 pontiff- in ancient Rome, one of Republic's leading priests

paterfamilias- the "family father" in ancient Rome, who had unlimited power over his household

matron-title of honor given to a married woman in ancient Rome